Pictures at an Exhibition. Supper with Picasso

"Supper with Picasso" is the title of my painting http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Paintin... and the title of the animation film. "Supper with Picasso" is not a story of everyday life. These are my thoughts about Art. I think contemporary art follows a false scent.

This is surreal off-the-wall humor. This is my protest against abomination in the contemporary art.

Picasso said:" The real artists are Giotto and Rembrandt, I'm just a clown, who understood his time". He was right.

Valentin Massov reads a poem of Nazim Hikmet

Valentin Massov

A lamp, a cat and Picasso

It's my second animation film.
This is a series of animation films about my pictures. The first film dedicates to my painting "A lamp, a cat and Picasso".

Everything But Arms

Penza Art College

 

 

Penza Art College was created by the personal funds of the Penza Lieutenant-General N. D. Seliverstov, who has bequeathed to Penza town three thousand rubles, and his entire collection of books and paintings "for the establishment of the Drawing School."
The first director of the college was a famous artist, an  academician of painting Konstantin Savitsky. He made a number of changes to the layout and design of the building and he developed a training program that largely resembled existed before the reform program in 1891 the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
In 1955, the college was named after Mr. Savitsky. There are four specialties in the college:
1. Painting (4-5 years) - prepares teachers of drawing and sketching for schools and children's art schools;
2. Decorative-design (design) (4 years) - prepares graphic artists (designers);
3. Sculpture (4-5 years) - prepares sculptors artists;
4. Theatrical-decorative (4 years) - prepares theater artists.

P.S. Penza Art College is the place where I was happy :)

 

 

 

My modest achievement :)

My works in the OSTWIND magazine

I am like Sisyphus in the modern world. I would like recognition as a talented artist but my efforts are vain. I see it's Sisyphean labour to dash against the rock of incomprehension. But I continue to fight.

Valentin Massov

Valentin Massov

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Valentin Massov was born on April 11, 1937 in family of a doctor. His father Pavel Massov was killed in the Great Patriotic War in 1942. His mother Ekaterina Massova died in 1939. Valentin Massov was brought up in the children's home.
Valentin Massov tells:
- I was four years old. My elder brother got as a present the coloured pencils. I took those pencils and told him: "I'll not give back!" And my mother's sister, my dear person (she was a prayer-woman), said: "Don't touch him, he will be the artist."
Valentin Massov entered to the Penza Art College in 1953. His ideal in Art became Velasquez - the great Spanish painter.
In 1955 Valentin Massov met with Arcady Plastov - the academician of painting. Having looked his works he said: "The God has given you spiritual vision of the world. Do work anyhow and don't listen to anybody. There are many vandals in the art in our time."
This meeting has affected on the further creative development of Valentin Massov.
Valentin Massov tells:
- I have didn't understand Plastov's words for a long time. But the more you'll love the more you'll congnize, and the more you'll cognize the more you'll love. It is development. In 1962 I met with very interesting critic. She said: "You are very talented artist. But your art is constructed on feelings. And when feelings will come to the end. What will you do?"
" I would like that all artists lose the opportunity to work, when them feelings will come to the end. Then would be no the bad pictures," I answered her.
The autumn 1962 Valentin Massov had a creative trip to Kuban. The necessity of this trip was after the exhibition of Renato Guttuso. After the exhibition he has realised Plastov's words: "You must work anyhow and don't listen to anybody." Kuban, a new nature, the new conditions, a beautiful autumn have opened the new possibilities to him. He was working 2 years (1962-1963) in this condition. But when he declared as an abstract artist and a formalist, (remembering words of Plastov), he became to work a watercolour.
The whole of September 1970 Valentin Massov was travelling across Kirghizia. From this time he has begun to open the art of watercolour for himself.
 Valentin Massov tells:
- I met with Alexander Myzin - the professor of painting in 1972.
" Your soul and Dionisius artist's soul are related. You'll give a new impulse in the art," he said me.
The words of A. Plastov and A. Myzin were always with me.
In 1975 Valentin Massov was accepted in the Union of artists by the recommendations of the artist Vitaly Gojaev and the academician of art criticism Michel Alpatov.
In 1977 Valentin Massov was in Moscow. There were many people which liked his works there. They have made a meeting with the artist Oleg Tselkov. His opinion was very significant for them. When Oleg Tselkov has looked his works, he said: "You make what nobody has made yet, all that was left by the art on the Earth."
Valentin Massov tells:
- The importance of the words of Oleg Tselkov I understood only after 1979 - the year of my revelation.

What is to be done?

"Spring" by Olga Romanova

What is contemporary art? It is Art of our time. But I am an artist who lives in our time. So I have the right to my opinion in Art. I don't like the contemporary experiments with Art. I don't understand why the dead shark must cost 12 million dollars. I don't like the contemporary "witchcraft". So I am not a contemporary artist. What is to be done?

My thoughts

There are many artist in the world. I would say too much. But in fact, there are few the talented artists in the world. And I am one from them. I think the real talent is as rare as the jewel in the sea. I think the talent artist have the right to a special approach. I am 43 and I am not a beginner artist. I would like to have a special approach to myself and to my works.

"Self-portrait with the cymblings" by Olga Romanova, 1993

I like it

I like to paint people's pictures. This work gives me chance to communicate with very interesting people. Yes I just like it.

Read Art. "Galina" by Olga Romanova, 2013

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday dear Christ!

"December, 25" by Olga Romanova, 2013

The Light

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

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"The bird cherry flowers" by Valentin Massov

What does it mean to be a modern artist in modern world?

What is Art today? Is it business, show, or some thing else perhaps?
I know many artists who successful in business, but they are not talented artists. And I know many really talented artists who live in utter misery, but they make real art.
In my mind art loses its initial meaning to be a guide to the world of harmony and beauty.
Why an artist can not be a just artist?

"It's misty" by Olga Romanova

A new heaven

"A boy with Torah" by Olga Romanova

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first  heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists  no more.   And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of  the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her  husband. And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold,  the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall tabernacle  with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall  be with them, their God. And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and  death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor  distress shall exist any more, for the former things have  passed away…”

Artist, culture and responsibility

Тhе meaning of art is to help a person to be more perfect. So, Art has to be responsible for future of humanity. "Like a stone thrown into the sea, has an effect on all the sea, so every person has an effect on all mankind," Blaise Pascal said.  I would say:"So every artist has an effect on all mankind." An artist can and create and destroy.  What he will choose, it will depend on him. And his choose will become his fate.

"Paradise Lost" by Olga Romanova

Art as a means of communication

A human is a social "animals". His life impossible without his own kind.
A human has speech for communication and intellect to speak right words. But how do express what impossible to express with words?
Art is the great gift of God, which can give possible to express everything.

 "Expression" by Olga Romanova

Anamnesis

"Anamnesis" by Olga Romanova

I like Socrates' theory of anamnesis. Socrates suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity, but each time the soul is incarnated its knowledge is forgotten in the shock of birth. What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.

Mountains of Kyrgyzstan

"Mountains of Kyrgyzstan" by Valentin Massov

"The mountain peaks" by Valentin Massov

"A frosty morning" by Valentin Massov

"Issyk Kul Lake" by Valentin Massov

Valentin Massov took a trip across Kyrgystan in 1970. It was a very interesting journey. Kyrgyzstan is the fantastic country. Valentin Massov have got the revelation on the Lake Sary-Chelek. But it is his secret.

My art is my life

"The Deer-Golden Horn" by Olga Romanova

I feel better when I work. Art is the world where I can live to the fullest. I am happy only there.
"Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world." Maurois

Supper with Picasso

 "Supper with Picasso" by Olga Romanova

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them; people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” Picasso

Magic of the human soul

"Frenchwoman" by Olga Romanova

Every human is the unique creation of God. I would say the every human is the universe in the boundless space.
I think an artist have to try to reproduce inward life of human. Try, or else why do you take a brush in your hand? I am against blind imitation of nature. A camera can make the same. The artist have to see more than the camera, or else he is not the artist.